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I'm happy to announce the release of Apache Subversion 1.8.0-rc2, the
first public release candidate of Subversion 1.8.0.
Please choose the mirror closest to you by visiting:
http://subversion.apache.org/download/#pre-releases
The SHA1 checksums are:
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9b8d319f6b556f856348a72563fd2d5005a6fa31 subversion-1.8.0-rc2.tar.gz
bab03d90dc8cc27877372ba875009c5b878c9785 subversion-1.8.0-rc2.zip
PGP Signatures are available at:
http://www.apache.org/dist/subversion/subversion-1.8.0-rc2.tar.bz2.asc
http://www.apache.org/dist/subversion/subversion-1.8.0-rc2.tar.gz.asc
http://www.apache.org/dist/subversion/subversion-1.8.0-rc2.zip.asc
For this release, the following people have provided PGP signatures:
Ben Reser [4096R/16A0DE01] with fingerprint:
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Branko Čibej [2048R/C8628501] with fingerprint:
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C. Michael Pilato [4096R/FE681333] with fingerprint:
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Ivan Zhakov [4096R/F6AD8147] with fingerprint:
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Mark Phippard [1024D/035A96A9] with fingerprint:
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Paul T. Burba [4096R/56F3D7BC] with fingerprint:
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Philip Martin [2048R/ED1A599C] with fingerprint:
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Stefan Sperling [2048R/9A59B973] with fingerprint:
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This is a release candidate for what will eventually become Apache
Subversion 1.8.0. It is thought to be free of blocking issues, and if
none are found will become the final release. For this reason, we
encourage thorough testing in as many environments as possible. This
release candidate begins the four-week "soak" period to allow for
further testing, and barring show-stopping bugs, the final 1.8.0
release can be expected on or near June 14th.
A pre-release means the Subversion developers feel that this release
is ready for widespread testing by the community. There are known issues
(and unknown ones!), so please use it at your own risk, though we do
encourage people to test this release thoroughly. Of particular note, please
remember than persistent data, such as the working copy or repository
formats may change before the final release, and there may not be an
upgrade path from the pre-releases to the final.
As a note to operating system distro packagers: while we wish to have this
release candidate widely tested, we do not feel that it is ready for packaging
and providing to end-users through a distro package system. Packaging a
release candidate poses many problems, the biggest being that our policy lets
us break compatibility between the release candidate and the final release, if
we find something serious enough. Having many users depending on a release
candidate through their distro would cause no end of pain and frustration that
we do not want to have to deal with. However, if your distro has a branch that
is clearly labeled as containing experimental and often broken software, and
explicitly destined to consenting developers and integrators only, then we're
okay with packaging the release candidate there. Just don't let it near the
end users please.
Release notes for the 1.8.x release series may be found at:
http://subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.8.html
You can find the list of changes between 1.8.0-rc2 and earlier versions at:
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/tags/1.8.0-rc2/CHANGES
Questions, comments, and bug reports to users@subversion.apache.org.
Thanks,
- The Subversion Team